Posted on 10/15/2015 1:35:52 PM PDT by Borges
I’ve heard it said that if you’re not paranoid, you don’t know what’s going on—LOL!
Story only works if he`s white.
Well, at least the creepy lady didn’t turn him over to the IRS or Homeland for being a possible Tea Party member.
That’s what we deal with - just ask the peepers at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.
This story is proof.
Photography is not a crime.
You do not have a right not to be photographed in public.
Nonetheless, photographers should be careful to introduce themselves and ask permission of potential subject. It’s polite and helps avoid difficulties.
Gladys Kravitz lives!
The man in this story said he had always obtained permission. The Gladys Kravitz neighbor who called the cops on him did not.
I do believe that making audio or video recordings of someone without their permission is not legal.
Great letter - wonderful last line. Good for him! Honestly!
——Photography is not a crime.——
it might be taking pictures of bridges or dams or other infrastructure might be a terrorist action and a real violation
Pretty sure you can record/photograph anyone in a public place.
We’re either supposed to be vigilant or shut the hell up. Followed by the chorus of “why didn’t somebody say something” if it all goes horribly wrong.
I thought the police had to have a reasonable belief that some crime had been committed to detain and question someone.
What could the suspected crime possibly have been? At worst, photographing children in a public park. THIS is a crime?
I would have likely been arrested because I would not have been cooperative with the police. I would have been repeatedly asking if I was being detained, if I was under arrest and make it clear that I don not consent to a search. Cops don’t like it when you “don’t respect their authority.”
“-——wasting their time when they could be doing something more useful, like managing the daily mayhem in Central Square. “
Central Square,Cambridge-——an racially diverse zoo.
Been that way for years.
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Like the school put on lockdown because “gum” sounds like “gun”. Guess that guy needs to look more Muslim if he wants to take pictures.
“I am a college professor of English.”
I think the neighbor was onto something here.
Sorry, but while "creepy" was her vernacular, and not "SP" for "suspicious person", it's hard to fault her for trying to protect the neighborhood.
Perhaps she watches all the child abduction shows on the ID channel or Mariska Hargitay's show?
Being that it's not only MA, but Cambridge, MA to boot, he must have really freaked her out.
I seem to remember a young boy was kidnapped in Cambridge (1990s) a la Leopold & Loeb (two gay males), and eventually murdered by stuffing a gasoline soaked rag in his mouth.
bfl
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